# notes

daily snapshots of life

5 posts

# Experience Design, or My Need for Change

I believe game design might be the most complete art form of our time. Writers, directors, and composers are also experience designers. But games seem to reach deeper parts of me.

# Game of Life, Conway and Revolution

In this post, you’ll read about the Game of Life and get to know the famous British mathematician John Conway. At the end, we’ll explore a fun simulation of the Game of Life modeled on revolution and political polarization.

# On the Parallel Postulate

The parallel postulate… In ancient times, it was the final riddle—one that must have consumed Greek mathematics long before Euclid. — Hans Freudenthal

# Reductio ad Absurdum and Other Things

Reductio ad absurdum… is a subtler move than any in chess: the chess player might sacrifice a pawn, even a piece, for the sake of the game—but the mathematician sacrifices the game itself.